Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

Welcome back to the 2019-2020 school year!

This will be a weekly reminder of what is coming up in the following week.  I will send it out as an email to the parents on Fridays.

General reminders:

1.  Binders should come back and forth to school everyday with your child.  Please check their binders for homework.

2. Make sure chromebooks are charged before coming to school everyday.

3.  Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns you have with your child. jolsen@ccsd66.org

This is what we will be working on the for the week of October 28-31!

Spelling:

Next week we will be working on the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-.  It can change the meaning or part of speech of the word.  The test will be THURSDAY, October 31.

English:

Next week we will be working on a descriptive paragraph of our Halloween costume and then guessing what the costume is!  This should be fun!

Reading:

  This week we talked about theme and did some activities with it.  We also learned some background history on Dr. Martin Luther King so we are ready to start the story on him next week. 

Social Studies/Science:

We will be finishing up the Narragansett villages today or over the weekend.  So far they look great!  Tuesday, October 29 we will have an open book quiz on the Narrangansett.  

In science we have finished up chapter 1 and will have a quiz on Monday, October 28 over the vocab words we have learned so far. The students should have put in their binders the vocab words they need to study.

SEL:

This week we learned how to understand complex feelings in classmates, friends, and family members. Next week, we will be learning about understanding different perspectives of feelings in people.

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

  We had our 2 checkpoints this week.  Next week we will be finishing up unit 2 on multiplication and division.  I am planning on reviewing with the students for unit 2 on Tuesday, November 5 and the unit 2 test on Wednesday, November 6.  As long as next week goes as planned, this will be the plan.

Important Info:

Next week is a short week, no school on Friday, November 1.

Parent conferences are also next week on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29-30.  Looking forward to meeting and discussing your child's progress in 4th grade.

Halloween parade-2:00 and party-1:00-2:00 is Thursday, October 31.

Have a great weekend!  

Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

Welcome back to the 2019-2020 school year!

This will be a weekly reminder of what is coming up in the following week.  I will send it out as an email to the parents on Fridays.

General reminders:

1.  Binders should come back and forth to school everyday with your child.  Please check their binders for homework.

2. Make sure chromebooks are charged before coming to school everyday.

3.  Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns you have with your child. jolsen@ccsd66.org

This is what we will be working on the for the week of October 21-26!

Spelling:

This week we will be working on some 4th grade spelling and vocabulary words.  We will be practicing and learning these words throughout the week.  The test will be Friday, October 26.

English:

You will see the Unit 1 test come home this week, please sign and return it for me.  We started last week- Free Write Friday- the students got time to write whatever they want and share with the class.  They can do a journal, a story, or anything they feel like writing about.  They enjoyed this!

Reading:

  We will continue with our new unit on Courage next week.  We will be reading a story entitled Happy Birthday Dr. King.  We will dig in deep to the story and theme within the story.

Social Studies/Science:

We learned about the Narragansett Native American tribe this week from the Northeast.  We will be doing a project next week on creating a Narragansett village. We are working hard on figuring out what the problem is in Ergstown.  We have created some simple electrical machines and experimented with them and finding their source of energy.

SEL:

Next week we will be learning how to understand complex feelings in classmates, friends, and family members. Look for the purple flyer to come home next Friday for activities to reinforce at home. 

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

  We will be having 2 checkpoints or quizzes next week.  The first will be on Tuesday, October 22.  The homework for Monday night will be reviewing what will be on it.  The second one will be on Friday, October 25.  Again, the homework on Thursday night will review what will be on the quiz too.  

Important Info:

Picture retakes are on Thursday, October 24.

Have a great weekend!